Hispanic Studies Thesis List

Published Thesis

Below you will find a complete listing of both MA and PhD thesis completed in the Hispanic Studies Graduate Program.  At the end of 2010, Western began the process of electronically publishing theses.  To view the electronically published theses from Hispanic Studies, you can access the electronic repository here .

2022

Daniel Varona Cordero (PhD), Design of a Capability and Maturity Model for the Development of Trustworthy ADM Systems Based on Principled AI. Supervised by Juan Luis Suarez.

2021

Maria Del Carmen Vera Lopez (PhD), Desmitificando un nombre. Juana, “la loca”, a través de su representación biográfica y dramática. Siglos XVIII-XXI. Supervised by Marjorie Ratcliffe.

Talia Lizeth Mendez Mahecha (MA) Una visión holística de la memoria digital sobre el conflicto armado en las narrativas digitales del Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica de Colombia. Supervised by Juan Luis Suarez.

Maria De La Esperanza Ruiz-Pena Sanchez De Ibarguen (PhD), The Imitation of Ecuadorian Assibilated Rhotics by Naïve Andalusian Speakers from Seville. Supervised by Yasaman Rafat.

Spencer Moyes (PhD), The Dionysian Disintegrations of Horacio Castellanos Moya's Tragic Antiheroes. Supervised by Rafael Montano.

Niloufar Ansari Dezfuly (MA), MET The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability. Supervised by Yasaman Rafat (UWO) and Laura Spinu (KBCC at CUNY).

Liceth Bohorquez Leon, (MA) Fórmulas de tratamiento en Ocaña, Colombia. Supervised by Jeff Tennant.

2020

Addy, Sarita Naa Akuye (PhD), Writing Against the Grain: Expressions of Resistance in the Postcolonial Novel of Equatorial Guinea. Supervised by Victoria Wolff.

Cenaida Gomez (PhD), Aproximación al modelo de adquisición del habla de un segundo dialecto: la producción de la variante [s] por hablantes de tres variedades del español colombiano en contacto en Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá. Supervised by Yasaman Rafat.

Tatiana Fernandez Fernandez (MA), Vitality of Damana, the language of the Wiwa Indigenous community. Supervised by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (UWO) and Maria Trillos Amaya (Universidad del Atlantico).

Martha Lorena Rojas Castaneda (MA), La voz de Violeta Parra: una aproximación a las voces como materialización del vínculo entre cuerpo, identidad y cultura. Supervised by Victoria Wolff.

Lilliana Montoya (PhD), Code-Switching in L2 Spanish: A comparison of French and English learners. Supervised by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito.

Witton Becerra Mayorga (PhD), El ritmo y la palabra o para una poética de la salsa y la presalsa. Supervised by Victoria Wolff.

Nandita Dutta (PhD), The Networked Fictional Narrative: Seriality and Adaptations in Popular Television and New Media. Supervised by Juan Luis Suarez.

Katie Slemp (MA), Latino, Latina, Latin@, Latine, and Latinx: Gender Inclusive Oral Expression in Spanish. Supervised by David Heap.

Ayelet Ishai (PhD), Affect and Feminist Storytelling in Three Spanish American Novels: Leonora by Elena Poniatowska, De un salto descabalga la reina by Carmen Boullosa, and El infinito en la palma de la mano by Gioconda Belli. Supervised by Alena Robin.

Diana Maria Fernandez Acosta (PhD), The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Intransitivity and Word Order in L3 Spanish. Supervised by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito.

Grace Akpene Gomashie (PhD), The Language Vitality of Nahuatl in Santiago Tlaxco, Mexico. Supervised by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito.

Alba Devo Colis (PhD), La ficción revelada: La poética de la autoficción en la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Supervised by Rafael Montano.

Sarita Naa Akuye Addy (PhD), Doctoral Writing Against the Grain: Expressions of Resistance in the Postcolonial Novel of Equatorial Guinea. Supervised by Victoria Wolff.

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